Post by wileyk209 on Jul 4, 2011 18:51:39 GMT -5
OK, I am one of the minority that LOVES "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo," as some of you may already know. One thing I love about it is the animation, mostly in the first season. You see, up until this point, Hanna-Barbera usually employed some stiff, limited (and often recycled) animation to cut corners. However, with this show, producer Tom Ruegger hired a Canadian-born animator named Glen Kennedy, who had a very distinctive, bouncy/squash-and-stretch style. Kennedy made some really good-looking animation on the show, IMHO, but he has also received his fair share of criticism for tending to sometimes go off model, have them bounce or "float around" for no good reason, often break out into dance, etc. During this first "Pup" season, Kennedy was the animation supervisor for the show at Wang Film Productions in Taiwan. But the following year (1989), Kennedy left the show to open his own competing animation studio for big companies to farm out their work to, which became Kennedy Cartoons. They did a bit of work for H-B in the 1990-1993 years, but also did quite a bit of work for Tom Ruegger's newest project for Warner Bros.; Tiny Toon Adventures. It was this where Kennedy gained a lot of criticism, for the same reasons I mentioned a while ago. What worked for "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" did not work for "Tiny Toon Adventures" (and at times they had to send the episodes back to Kennedy to be re-animated), so eventually after the first season, Kennedy Cartoons was fired, and then went to work for Disney from 1991 to 1995, doing shows like "Darkwing Duck," "Goof Troop" and "Bonkers" (though Glen did not animate much on these shows as he did on "Pup" and "Tiny Toons").
Glen Kennedy had a rather unique style when it came to animating the young Scooby-Doo gang. Here's some screenshots showing some of his work:
Wild takes were a specialty of his...
Some more interesting stuff of his:
Glen Kennedy also animated Scooby's "rocket launch" animation after eating a Scooby Snack...
And of course the infamous dance cycles typically seen during the chase scenes:
It's kind of too bad that Glen Kennedy is often criticized for his animation work; for the most part it actually looks pretty good! Well, except for some of his Tiny Toons work. Quite a bit of it actually reminds me of "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" with the poses and movements:
Just felt like sharing.
Glen Kennedy had a rather unique style when it came to animating the young Scooby-Doo gang. Here's some screenshots showing some of his work:
Wild takes were a specialty of his...
Some more interesting stuff of his:
Glen Kennedy also animated Scooby's "rocket launch" animation after eating a Scooby Snack...
And of course the infamous dance cycles typically seen during the chase scenes:
It's kind of too bad that Glen Kennedy is often criticized for his animation work; for the most part it actually looks pretty good! Well, except for some of his Tiny Toons work. Quite a bit of it actually reminds me of "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" with the poses and movements:
Just felt like sharing.
